Spartanburg County Grew 16 Percent. Union County, Next Door, Shrank.
Spartanburg County beat Greenville County by five points over five years while Union County, on its southern line, ran a demographic deficit and lost residents.
Greenville Passed One Million. Its Birth Rate Had Nothing to Do With It.
The Greenville metro added 85,894 residents in five years. Net migration supplied 84,925 of them. Natural change was negative 166. That shapes housing demand.
The Gap Between an Interior Lot and a Dockable One Is a Permit. Canebrake Shows You the Math.
The Cliffs launched Canebrake at Keowee Falls in June 2024. Here is the current pricing, Duke Energy's dock rules, and where Upstate supply sits now.
Greenville Inventory Is Up 12 Percent, and the Growth Is Slowing Every Month. That Still Buys You Time.
Greenville's active inventory is up 12.0% year over year and decelerating, days on market hit 52, and the median sale price is flat at $330,000.
South Carolina's New Rate Is Real. Its Withholding Tables Are From Last November.
Act 110 set South Carolina's top rate at 5.21%, but the 2026 withholding tables predate the law and were never revised. SCDOR has issued no guidance yet.
North Carolina's Budget Is Law. Its 2027 Income Tax Rate Is Not Yet in the Statute Book.
North Carolina's budget became SL 2026-41 on July 7. The state's own statute book and revenue department still publish the old rate regime. Plan accordingly.
Cashiers Lake Is Not New. The Date Worth Writing Down Is August 28.
Daniel Communities and Silverwing announced Cashiers Lake in March 2025. Here is what is confirmed, what conflicts, and the showhouse dates in August.
A Six Senses Project Was Announced for Three Lowcountry Islands in 2024. There Is Still No Opening Date, and That Is the Story.
Six Senses announced a 460-acre, three-island Lowcountry project in March 2024. Two years on, there is still no confirmed opening date. Plan accordingly.
Charleston's High End Held Through the First Half of 2026. Three Numbers Everyone Is Quoting Did Not.
Charleston closed 764 sales between $2M and $5M in 2025, and a broker counts 53 downtown closings above $2M in Q1 2026. Here is the fuller read.
Old Edwards Reserve Is Building Laurel Village on Lake Keowee. It Sits in Pickens County, Not Oconee.
Construction started in May 2026 on 24 turnkey cottages at Laurel Village, 12.8 acres above Laurel Pond in Pickens County. Completion is summer 2027.
A Rare Earth Magnet Plant Is Coming to Cherokee County. The Housing Clock Starts at Commissioning, Not at the Podium.
USA Rare Earth announced $1.2 billion and about 490 jobs in Cherokee County on June 2, with commissioning targeted for 2028. Housing moves on that clock.
Three Downtown Greenville Projects Cleared Design Review in One Sitting. Two of Them Are Public Money.
Greenville's Design Review Board advanced City Hall, the arena, and 127 South Main on June 18. Here is what the $282 million estimate actually covers.
Ocala's WEC Halo Is Not One Radius. It Is a Set of Bands, and the Innermost One Went Down.
The WEC Effect maps Ocala land values in bands out to 15 miles, and the innermost band fell in 2024. Here is how to read Marion County's numbers honestly.
The National Horse Show's Move to Tryon Is Approved, Not Pending. The Land Data Behind It Is Thinner Than the Headlines Suggest.
USEF approved the National Horse Show's move to Tryon on April 9, 2026. Here is what the Tryon corridor's land data actually supports, and what it does not.
GSP Picked Up Three Nonstops in 56 Days. All Three Are Breeze, and Only Two Fly Year-Round.
Breeze added Columbus, Fort Lauderdale, and Cincinnati nonstops at GSP inside 56 days. Two run year-round, one is seasonal, and frequency is thin.
Augusta Road, Cleveland Park, Chanticleer. The Leverage Is Not in the Neighborhood, It Is in the Price Band.
Greenville's median is flat at $330,000, but above $1 million sellers are getting 96.0% of list on 8.1 months of supply. That is where the leverage is.
The Cliffs Did $90.1 Million Last Quarter. The Share Closing Outside the Gates' Own Brokerage Nearly Doubled in a Year.
The Cliffs did $90.1 million in Q1 2026. The share closing outside the in-house brokerage nearly doubled in a year, from about a quarter to nearly half.
The Highest Off-Lake Comp in the Mountain and Lakes Region Is $6.3 Million. Worth Asking What the Water Premium Actually Buys.
A Keowee Springs property closed at $6.3 million with no lake frontage in December 2025. What that says about the premium buyers assume they are paying for water.
Two Thirds of the In-House Dollars at The Cliffs Came From One Region. It Is the One With Water.
Cliffs Realty's Lake region did $31.95 million on 22 transactions in Q1 2026, two thirds of its dollars on half its deals, at more than double the Mountain average.
On Rate, North Carolina Wins the Carolinas. South Carolina's Case Is on the Property Tax Bill.
North Carolina wins the Carolinas rate comparison outright. South Carolina's answer is the 4% owner-occupied assessment ratio and the school millage exemption.